Nach der Ablehnung des Europäischen Verfassungsvertrages bei den Referenden in Frankreich und den Niederlanden und den gescheiterten Finanzverhandlungen befindet sich die Europäische Union in einer Krise. Eberhard Sinner, bayerischer Staatsminister für Europaangelegenheiten und regionale...

"Western Europe has welcomed its new members by shutting the door in the face of the workers coming from the East and making their road to EMU more difficult. Two years down the road of enlargement, some countries are now liberalizing worker flows. Indeed, as shown in this paper, these...

Am 29. März 1996 beginnt in Turin die Maastricht-II-Regierungskonferenz. Wichtige Weichen für das EWWU-Projekt sind zwar gestellt. Die technisch-organisatorischen Vorbereitungen für den Übergang zu einer gemeinsamen europäischen Währung sind jedoch noch nicht abgeschlossen. Entschieden...

"There is no simple answer to the question of the potential impact of migration on the EU economy. EU migration policy is expected to meet the requirements of economic and social policy, in particular of the Lisbon Agenda, as well as national cultural, political, strategic and security...

This study examines the nature of interdependence, and return and volatility spillovers, for three Indian exchange rates: US dollar (USD), Euro and British Pound. We use the spillover index methodology of Diebold and Yilmaz (2009) to analyse precisely and independently the returns and volatility...

The current global financial crisis involves a wide range of situations in which economies, financial institutions, and assets have lost a substantial portion of their value. Banking panics, financial crisis associated with financial bubbles' bursts, sovereign debt defaults, and currency crisis...